Carport kits either need very little work to assemble, or you the kind that will keep you busy for more than a day or two. But if you are an enthusiastic do-it-yourselfer, you should be able to find carport kits for sale that are not complicated and are not limited to one style or another including materials. You can often find metal carport kits for sale at most websites and resellers, they usually will have the more expensive steel carport kits for sale as well.

Ace Canopy has a simple kit for a $700 list price but a $495 on-sale price. This is a 10×20 foot carport with a four-post frame, a polyethylene canopy top, and a screen enclosure to protect against pests and animals. The screen enclosure includes a zippered panel for easy entrance. And, according to Ace, you can build it in as little as fifteen minutes, depending on how handy you are.

The same company’s portable carport kit—listing for $1,200, often on sale for $750—features a gray, triple-laminate polyethylene canopy, eight posts from two-inch, seventeen-gauge steel poles, and a peak height of eight feet. This kit includes stakes for temporary anchoring. But it also includes a little more building time—one to two hours, according to Ace.

Ace’s Round Carport kit takes about the same time to build and lists for $1,200, though its sale price is often $697.95 depending on the seller. It resembles the U-shaped tunnels once popular with model railroad kits and features a gray triple-laminate polyethylene canopy covering the entire framework, rather than just the top of the frame. The frame is a twelve-post frame with two-inch poles for its assembly. The kit also includes temporary anchoring stakes.

Juliana Greenhouses makes a unique product—it is Compact Greenhouse that can be built as a carport. These aluminum metal carport kits for sale include aluminum frames with gutters; four-foot-high sidewalls; a 6/3” peak height; a two-foot wide single sliding door; and, unbreakable polycarbonate clear wall panels. Options include a galvanized steel base, and the standard list price for this kit is $1,285.

BuildAMetalCarport.com offers a two-vehicle carport kit for $900. This kit, which should take no more than a day or two to build, features zincalume roof panels and trim, assembly materials for four posts, available base plates, and ratings of 90MPH wind load and #20 snow loads for the roof. A six-post version is available for $1,050. But if your budget is a little bit lacking, Creative Shelters offers carport canopy kits for as low as $68. Their Website, in fact, even offers a do-it-yourselfer a real do-it-yourself root option—a tool with which you can design your own canopy, whether standard gable/peaked style, slant or lean-to top, or kennel-style with peaked roof and side panels all around the structure.